Code Orange weather sends region in search of cool

Washingtonians and the region’s many visitors endured a preview of summer on Sunday, capping off a weekend of temperatures that shot into the 90s.

It was so hot and muggy that the region had a Code Orange ozone alert on Sunday. Many people may not have realized it was an air quality alert day — meaning the elderly and sensitive are urged to stay indoors — but they didn’t need to know that to have a perspective on the weather.